On this eight-degree morning, with clean sunlight flooding the upstairs office and a small dog asleep on the couch behind my desk, it is tempting to tell myself a reassuring story. We are fine. The ...
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Walden
Tracy Fullerton, game designer, educator and writer, best known for Walden, a game. Professor in the USC Interactive Media & ...
Today is the 200th birthday of author, activist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's individualist views and distaste for government make him a hero to many people across the political ...
To commemorate Henry David Thoreau’s 200 th birthday on July 12, the New York Times last week featured an essay by historian Douglas Brinkley based on a complete misinterpretation of one of Thoreau’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walden Pond. Ekabhishek/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” urges American transcendentalist writer ...
Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate change on New England's seasons. Thoreau's meticulous notes on river ice, ...
Henry David Thoreau, the essayist and poet whose book “Walden” still resonates with fans of nature and the environment in the modern era, was born 200 years ago Wednesday. Admirers of the pioneering ...
Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...
America is giving up. Collectively, we’re putting in our two weeks. Please accept our national letter of resignation. “We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation,” reports Harvard Business School’s ...
“A Journal,” as Henry David Thoreau defined it in an entry from July 13, 1852, is “a book that shall contain a record of all your joy—your extacy.” Thoreau’s archaically spelled “extacy” infuses the ...
THE most point-blank and authoritative criticism within my knowledge that Thoreau has received at the hands of his countrymen came from the pen of Lowell about 1864, and was included in My Study ...
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